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Organisations involved in research and academic career assessment across Europe, including universities, funders, national authorities and others, are rethinking how they assess, incentivise and recognise academic work.
Academic career assessment reform, accelerated by the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) and related national initiatives, is increasingly shaping institutional cultures, organisational structures and the conditions for meaningful engagement with society. As such, it represents one of the most significant transformative leadership challenges facing higher education today.
This EUA webinar explored how leadership at different levels of academia can enable this transformation. Drawing on insights from EUA’s work on leadership development and institutional transformation, the discussion highlighted how leaders can navigate complexity, foster cultural change and align institutional practices with evolving expectations around research quality, openness and societal impact.
Bringing together perspectives from a national quality assurance and policy body, a national university association, an institutional leader and an early-career researcher, the webinar examined leadership dilemmas, capacity building needs and engagement strategies that support assessment reform in practice.
Participants discussed how universities can build cultures that reward collaboration, engagement and impact, while navigating resistance, ensuring internal alignment across units and sustaining momentum over time.
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